“You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.”

The state of Massachusetts has reactivated the 54th Massachusetts as a national guard honor unit. This unit will of course, not consist entirely of black guardsmen(and not necessarily all men, either) and will have the current uniform.